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Woodstock, Yerevan style...
...Soviets, the festival was a mini-Woodstock similar in spirit, if not in size, to the rock festival that attracted some 450,000 fans to a dairy farm in upstate New York in 1969. The unlikely site of the Communist bash: a bicycle racing stadium in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, a city of 1 million people hard by Mount Ararat...
...celebration, sponsored by the Armenian Ministry of Culture, was the first major rock festival to be held in the Soviet Union. Officials have painfully mixed feelings about pop culture and its musical expression, sometimes denouncing it as decadent, sometimes going along. When the Yerevan festival was approved, young Soviets came from as far away as the Baltic republics, central Russia and even Siberia. They luxuriated in the distinctive sounds of such national pop superstars as Stas Namin, 30, Gunnar Graps, 29, and his Magnetic Band, and Valeri Leontiev, 32, a booted, bolero-suited dancing rocker whose performance falls somewhere between...
...YEREVAN, the capital city of Armenia, there is a huge people's park in the middle of the city. Atop a small hill, there stands a granite statue of a woman with a sword. The stones were originally intentioned for a statue of Stalin, but after his death, the Armenians defied that idea since the dictator had already butchered tow-thirds of the population. Around the base of the statue are Russian tanks--reminders of World War Two. Throughout the park are huge posters of the socialist realist school: lines of square-jawed sailors striding in unison into the future...
...Olympic physicians from many countries are convinced that acclimation for longer periods, with standard training schedules, really works. The Russians trained at Alma-Ata (around 10,000 ft.) in Kazakhstan before going to Mexico City in October; now they are building improved Olympic training camps at Yerevan in Armenia. The Japanese have camps on Mount Nori-kura in the 8,000-ft. to 9,000-ft. range. The French are completing an $8,000,000 complex at Font-Romeu (6,100 ft.) in the Pyrenees, and, in a fine display of entente cordiale, they will let the West Germans train...